Richard is currently off in Edinburgh working on his new book Haunted Britain, and also will be filming for his new Sherlock Holmes Documentary on Thursday and Friday.

Edinburgh is, of course, the place where Arthur Conan Doyle met and studied under Doctor Joseph Bell, the man upon whom he partly based the character of Sherlock Holmes, and the film will take in  both the birth place and the grave of the man who inspired one of fictions most iconic detectives.

In London next week the documentary will take in several locations covered on Richard’s Sherlock Holmes London walks that pertain to the story of how Sherlock Holmes was created.

Robert Downey Jnr, who plays Sherlock Holmes in the new Guy Ritchie movie also played the title role in Chaplain and there is a connection between Holmes and Chaplain in that, in 1905, William Gillette reprised his role as Sherlock Holmes at the Duke Of York Theatre in London and a young Charlie Chaplain appeared on stage alongside him.

The new documentary will feature interviews with some leading Sherlock Holmes academics, Surgeons and experts on 19th century London history.

The first batch of interviews were done blue screen just before Christmas and the backgrounds of 19th century London are going to be put in later this month.

So all in all a busy and exciting month and we’ll have some more information on the new drama documentary, currently under the imaginative title ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and of Richard’s book on Haunted Britain.

Be sure to follow Richard’s Edinburgh rambles on his dedicated blog http://haunted-britain.blogspot.com.

Next week he returns to London and will again be conducting his Haunted London walks.